Privacy Policy
In this regard, SPEC commits to processing your data in accordance with the applicable personal data protection regulations in force at any given time. Specifically, SPEC will comply with the provisions set forth in the Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, on Personal Data Protection and guarantee of digital rights (“LOPDGDD”), as well as those of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, of April 27, 2016, of the European Parliament and of the Council regarding the protection of natural persons with respect to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data, which repeals Directive 95/46/EC (“GDPR”), and any other applicable correlating regulations.
Based on this, SPEC informs you of its Privacy Policy, with the aim of making users aware of the processing of their data, as well as the fundamental principles regarding personal data protection that it applies. For this purpose, please consult the following sections:
1.- Who is responsible for the processing of your data?
Identity: SPEC, S.A.U.
Tax ID: A-08537300
Registered Office: Calle Caballero, 81-83, 08014 (Barcelona)
Email: protecciondatos@grupospec.com
Phone: 932478800
Data Protection Officer: dpo@grupospec.com
2.- What are the main purposes of processing your data?
- We process the data you provide us through our Website according to the following purposes:
- Respond to, manage, and handle inquiries, issues, and/or requests made by users;
- Send electronic communications related to the services and products offered by SPEC;
- Provide our services in accordance with the Legal Notice;
- Customer Area Registration;
- Ensure the proper technical functioning of the Website and, if you authorize it as informed in our Cookie Policy; and
- Use them for any other purpose required or permitted by applicable law or for which you have given your consent.
3.- What is the legal basis for processing your data?
The legal bases for processing your personal data are: (a) the existence of a pre-contractual and/or contractual relationship; (b) when necessary for the satisfaction of legitimate interests pursued by SPEC; (c) when you have given your consent; and (d) when necessary to comply with the legal and regulatory obligations of SPEC.
4.- How long will we keep your data?
The data obtained will be retained as long as your relationship with us is maintained, and even after the termination of this relationship for the time necessary to formulate, exercise or defend claims, and legal and contractual obligations, while being properly blocked.
If you send us a contact form or an email, we will process your personal data for as long as it takes to respond to your inquiry or request.
If you consent to receive information about our services, we will process your data as long as you do not state otherwise.
5.- Who may be the recipients of the data communication?
- Depending on the purposes for which personal information is collected, the following persons may access such information, indistinctly:
Authorized personnel of SPEC or its representatives acting on behalf of SPEC, subject to applicable data protection laws; - Regulatory authorities or other third parties in accordance with applicable laws;
- Third parties (service providers who process information as data processors, under the instructions of SPEC), only after taking the necessary measures to ensure that we can share such information and having entered into the corresponding data processing agreement, in accordance with applicable data protection regulations.
Personal data may be processed outside the European Economic Area (EEA). When processed outside the EEA, SPEC will ensure that this cross-border data processing is protected with appropriate safeguards.These safeguards may include: - Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission. These standardized clauses provide sufficient guarantees to ensure that the requirements for adequacy and security set by the GDPR are met; or
- Certifications demonstrating that third parties outside the EEA process personal data in a manner consistent with the GDPR. These certifications are approved either by the European Commission, by a competent supervisory authority, or by a competent national accreditation body in accordance with the GDPR.
6.- What are your rights when you provide us with your data?
- Right to request access to personal data: you can ask SPEC if it is processing your data, and if so, access them.
- Right to request their rectification if the data are inaccurate, or to complete the data that we have incomplete.
- Right to request the deletion of your data.
- Right to request the limitation of their processing: in this case, we will only keep them for the exercise or defense of claims.
- Right to oppose processing: SPEC will stop processing the personal data, except if they must continue to be processed for legitimate reasons or for the exercise or defense of possible claims.
- Right to data portability: in case the user wants their data to be processed by another data controller, SPEC will facilitate the transfer of their data to the new controller. Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing of your personal data.
If you have granted consent for a specific purpose, you may withdraw it at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent prior to its withdrawal.
To exercise your rights, you can communicate via email to protecciondatos@grupospec.com, or through written communication addressed to SPEC, S.A.U. Calle Caballero, 81-83, 08014, Barcelona (Ref. GDPR). We inform you of the right you have to file a complaint with the Control Authority, specifically, with the Spanish Data Protection Agency, and other competent public bodies for any complaint arising from your personal data.
7.- How do we protect your personal data?
In order to ensure the security of information, SPEC applies various technical and organizational measures to ensure an appropriate level of security in accordance with applicable regulations. In any case, SPEC will take appropriate technical and organizational measures, both at the time of designing the data processing system and at the time of processing itself, to preserve security and prevent unauthorized processing. However, despite the diligent implementation of such measures, the user should be aware that security measures on the Internet are not impregnable. SPEC is not responsible for the actions of third parties who, breaching these measures, access the mentioned data and information.
8.- Confidentiality
Professionals working at SPEC who may have some type of involvement in the services provided to the user are committed to not disclosing or making use of the information they have accessed. The information provided by the user will, in any case, be considered confidential, and may not be used for purposes other than those related to the management linked to their requests and the services contracted to SPEC, where applicable. In this regard, we are committed to not disclosing or revealing information about the user’s intentions, the reasons for the advice requested, or the duration of their relationship with this.
9.- Links
The Website may contain links to other websites. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy and data processing of other websites. This Privacy Policy applies exclusively to information collected on the Website. We recommend that you read the privacy policies and data processing of other websites that you link from our Website or visit in any other way.
10.- Social networks
SPEC has a presence on some of the main Internet social networks, and of which it acts as the data controller in relation to the data published by SPEC.
SPEC will process the data in each social network according to the rules established for that purpose by each social network. Therefore, unless otherwise stated from SPEC, we may inform our followers on the corresponding social network of our activities, events, and other related topics, including follower support, through the channels provided by the social network.
SPEC will not extract personal data from social networks, unless the user gives us their explicit consent.
11.- Child Policy
This Website is not designed or directed to children under eighteen (18) years of age, without authorization from their parents or legal guardian. In this regard, we do not deliberately collect information from such individuals. In any case, if parents or legal representatives believe that their children have sent us personal data without their consent, please contact us by writing to protecciondatos@grupospec.com.
12.- Modifications and integrity of our Privacy Policy
We will only use your personal data as set out in the Privacy Policy that is in effect at the time we collect your personal data. SPEC reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, publishing such modifications on the Website, so we recommend that you review the Privacy Policy each time you access the Website. If at any time we decide to use personal data in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email, provided we have it. At that time, you will be given the option to authorize other uses or disclosures of the personal data you had provided us before the modification of our Privacy Policy.
Date of the last update: May 2024.
